The torque peak is only 1000 rpm but power continues to increase all the way to redline. The diesel will definitely be better for everyday driving, imagine how easy top-gear passes would be. You wouldn't even have to downshift.

The 4 door is beautiful. It's not actually a coupe but it is a true 4 seater and it looks better than everything else in its segment, especially the Panamera.

It's not a charge by the store, it's a tax by the jurisdiction.

Looks like you have a fatcat oilfield owner in your midst.

Men's brains are perfectly capable of propagating unrealistic ideas without this encouragement, all those male hormones twist their minds. There should be mandatory castration at age 18, after sperm donation of course.

"interior and ride quality that will rival any comparable BMW"' - LOL. Maybe from the 90's...

Either you are vastly overestimating the interior quality of BMW or vastly underestimating the interior quality of Acura, but despite the BMW being more "driver focused" the interior materials are basically the same at comparable price levels. The TL-S and a well equipped 328i of the same year both cost a hair under…

Carmax will ship the car straight to auction if it doesn't meet their standards for sale. This will hurt your trade-in vale. If you have a late-model car in good condition with a reasonable amount of miles then expect them to make an offer very close to the NADA book trade value. The general rule with Carmax is less…

You asked if I could imagine a TL-S with AWD. I said Honda made one and it was shit. The G35 was lighter but it wasn't as refined as the TL and interior quality was much lower. FWD was better for the TL, RWD would have been nice but would have required a complete re-engineering of the car which would have driven price…

The Honda manual can be difficult to shift under power but I've never had one pop out of gear after completing a shift. Also...

The 2010 TL SH-AWD manual weighs nearly 4000 lbs, not to mention it's uglier than dog shit. With price and resale as an object, I'd take the 2008 TL-S manual over any contemporary sedan. Which other luxury sedan would maintain 75% of its value with 30k additional miles over 4 years?

You paid way less than book value, so congratulations I guess. I hope you bought it from some retiree who couldn't handle the torque steer instead of someone who raced the snot out of it for 3,800 miles.

Sterling McCall Acura in Houston, TX. Their sales department is a conglomeration of assholes but their service department is one of the best in the business. Seriously, I enjoy going to them for dealer service, which should say a lot about their quality. Never buy a car from them though.

In my part of Texas there are 3 Spanish-language stations available over the air. I live in the 4th largest US city. I can't tell you how many times I've seen something interesting on my channel guide only to find out it is in Spanish.

When it comes to recorded speech it is always better to speak slowly and deliberately if you are concerned about conveying your idea poorly. I hate to bring up politics here but look at the difference between GWB and Obama. Bush almost always spoke off the cuff and was frequently ridiculed for his misuse of the…

As a white guy I really enjoy fried chicken thighs, cornbread, and watermelon. Any excuse to get these on the menu at my local cafeteria is fine by me. It takes an Al Sharpton level persecution complex to be offended by fried chicken. I mean, who doesn't like it?

CL type S was a fun car, but it looks almost exactly the same as the Camry coupe. I wanted to buy one for years and I still have trouble telling them apart at first glance. Want to guess which one came out first? It wasn't the Acura.

The OEM pads are $225 for a set and the rotors are $150 each, that's not bad for how well they perform. Brembos are literally the easiest brakes to change I've ever seen and took an hour start to finish on my buddy's STI in his driveway.

Yes, the MPV was first but I've never been in one and it hasn't been sold in the Western hemisphere for nearly a decade so I stuck with what I knew. By "introduced" I didn't mean to say they were first, just that it was a new feature for the model.

E46 M3 with 100k miles and 2014 Mustang GT premium track pack (8k in dealer incentives brought the price down to under $32k brand new). The E46 was great but I didn't want to spend $6k extra (carmax+warranty, which I considered a must for a high-mileage M) for a car with the same book value and a barely-usable rear…